The White Gorilla (1945) on Netflix
Shut out by the other gorillas, a white gorilla grows lonely and angry. Steve Collins finds the albino animal, and journalist Ruth Stacey wants to uncover the mystery behind his discovery.
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Plot summary
At a jungle trading post, explorer Steve Collins tells of a man and a woman stalked by jungle beasts, and of a boy who plays among the animals. Collins has come upon a white gorilla that the other gorillas will not accept, and the creature, shut out from them, grows lonely and angry. Ruth Stacey, an ambitious journalist, sets out to uncover the mystery behind his find. New scenes were edited into footage from a 1927 silent serial.
Cast
- Harry Belmoreas Alexander Morley
- Will Hermanas Moto(archive footage)(uncredited)
- Frank D. Hutteras Renee(archive footage)(uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The White Gorilla (1945)
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- In 1945, producer Louis Weiss urgently needed a "gorilla picture" because theaters could not get new films during a film-stock shortage, and asked Harry L. Fraser to write and direct one in time for a San Francisco premiere set six weeks later. Fraser admitted the result was pure hokum.
- Most of the film's action came from Fraser's 1927 silent serial Perils of the Jungle, starring silent-screen Tarzan Frank Merrill: fully half of The White Gorilla's running time is 1927 footage, with music and sound effects added.
- The half-hour of new footage was shot in just four days on a trading-post interior and a standing jungle set, with Ray Corrigan playing both the leading role and the white gorilla and a cast of only six actors.
